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Friday, November 15, 2013

Like most normal people, you probably haven’t invested too
much of your valuable time pondering the origins of the term “Bluetooth.” As it
turns out, the ubiquitous wireless technology’s name has nothing to do with
being blue or tooth-like in appearance and has everything to do with medieval
Scandinavia.

Harald Bluetooth was the Viking king of Denmark between 958
and 970. King Harald was famous for uniting parts of Denmark and Norway into
one nation and converting the Danes to Christianity.

So, what does a turn-of-the-last-millennium Viking king have
to do with wireless communication? He was a uniter!

Harald Bluetooth

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In the mid-1990s, the wireless communication field needed
some uniting. Numerous corporations were developing competing, non compatible
standards. Many people saw this growing fragmentation as an impediment to
widespread adoption of wireless.

One such person was Jim Kardach, an Intel engineer working
on wireless technologies. Kardach took on the role of a cross-corporate mediator
dedicated to bringing various companies together to develop an industry-wide
standard for low-power, short-range radio connectivity.

At the time, Kardach had been reading a book about Vikings
that featured the reign of Harald, whom he viewed as an ideal symbol for
bringing competing parties together, as he explained:

Bluetooth was borrowed from the 10th-century, second king of
Denmark, King Harald Bluetooth; who was famous for uniting Scandinavia just as
we intended to unite the PC and cellular industries with a short-range wireless
link.

The millennium-old shout-out doesn’t end there. The
Bluetooth logo—that cryptic symbol in a blue oval printed on the box your phone
came in—is actually the initials of Harald Bluetooth written in Scandinavian
runes

Source: Best of TechHive

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